I have tried to install debian woody from both floppy (2.4bf), and CD-ROM (netinst images: http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/) and for two different machines the install hangs at a random point in the install. I have repeated this probably 20 times. The install does not finish, but crashes when installing packages (and never at the same point). By "crash" I mean the system is unresponsive to interrupts (can't ping, keyboard lights don't flash when you hit numlock). i.e. it looks like a hard kernel crash. One of the machines is an AMD K5-133, 24MB RAM, Diamond Stealth 64 video (VLB), aha1522 (ISA), ne2000 (isa), ide (unknown - ISA). I have the root on a 100MB IDE drive, and /usr on a 4GB SCSI drive. I was attempting a network install in all cases. The other machine is an AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz (via KT266 chipset), ATI Radeon video, IDE drives, via-rhine ethernet, also attempting a network install. Is this known? I checked the bugs page but didn't see anything relevant. Thanks, -- Bob Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu) Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics
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